Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 23, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press Winnipeg wednesday october 23, 1918. The theatre of War in relation to the German Frontier x.c01 x re St Ransbu s Voul my English Miles to 20 30 to up floats frontiers fortifications development of x be War Van eat with Tho germans re Cor. Offensive lines nearer to 1 frontiers brings into promo Many considerations hitherto As belonging to a dim and sea i future. The Ileus line the face tween the belgian dutch boundaries the course by the Rhine and the Loca the important German towns to come Aerial Fco Bard or the fluid artillery of the in armies of the allies Are sub interest. This a ass comprehensive Survey to be taken of the position created toy the enforced Retreat of the germans from France and Belgium. The present line starts from the dutch Frontier North East of. Eecloo and West of Ghent and a Denarde practically through Tournai and St. Viand to Valenciennes thence be tween be Cateau and Lan recies and West of Louiae to the Serre River. Bearing eastward along the Serre to the Aisne near Rethel it passes North of Vou Izera and grandpre to the Meuse. And West at stain to Ponic a and Tho Swiss Frontier but the line is Chamrin a daily and .1 is in the possibilities which the Allied Advance holds that Tia chief interest rom the message. That s i Complete e i3errnan note admits the German people in declaring War that s one argument or. reply i of Wilson so far As it May a in. Nof Iclal form is a effrontery and Effort at u is characteristic ally no bearer ocl 22 nearer by the latest to president Ledger editorially of sincerity oct. Nes Ger est is n Mushy in incl Nesa and loopholes and is wholly de void of any flavor of sincerity. Germany is whipped. She is begging she in seeking to open negotiations for something she has never before had to admit she must Haac. Lut she has not yet Learned the Lang Page of entreaty nor the. Virtue 01 must be unconditional surrender a Manv carrying with i submission the terms of an Anni slice dictated by the victorious commanders of the of and just can be traced. This line the Ger mans right have b in expected to Holcli. It any rate for a time by Tor fact that the Allied troops Are Alre guv at the Gates of Auden Ardc Anil within a Nile of Tournai Ine capture of either of these Ponts places the occupation of the. Schela. Line out of the question. The enemy s Retreat must therefore continued eastward. Antwerp May form the Slart ins Point for the next line of defensive operations which will probably be in the nature of de laying actions to cover the Oor aple Tor of elaborate preparations for be defence of the mouse Valley the great natural Barrier protecting the Gei Man Frontier from invasion through be ilium. A preliminary stand on the it Tilfor the honest London newspapers emphatic j in commenting on Ger Viany s latest note is to by Artioli cited pending the Consolida Tion of the enemy s Reserve forces ise Hind the m Eta be North of to the dutch Frontier. The entry of troops into the environs of Valenciennes fore shadows the placing of the Strong fortress of Mau Treuge in. A pocket. Ima Beu be commands the Vahey of it enters Belgium. Down this Valley the allies must and v a be in their approach to Charleroi and Namur. But the carrying of such positions As that at Mau Beuge by frontal attack has ions been abandoned and the flank movement through Valenciennes ready destroys Prospect of any prolonged ensure of the fortress by Tuo. Enemy. Evo Iti Namur southwards the Ger Man defensive line must pass through the Foothills of the ardennes to. Alel Eres. This is one of the weakest Points in the Oleuse line. A Yery slight Advance Between Namur and across the Lilouse into the ardennes mountains would enable the attacking forces to separate the a mles in the North from those in Lorraine. The Success of the defensive operations depends on Tho retention of these Points together with the line them. South of Mez the line of defense must Sun follow the mouse across the famous battlefields of Sedan to Stemmy. This Section protects the vital railway Centro of Uin Guyon. But to the South again it must leave the Meuse. Since the american army is already established on its Eastern Bank and pass West of into the mountains of Alsace. Willie the germans will undoubtedly Endeavor to keep the War out the fatherland toy defending the Valeuse Liese last ditch Short of the Rhine allies Wil have approached very appreciably nearer to their goal. From Cen trial Belgium and the Argonne and Yvo Evre districts it will be an easy matter for the Independent air Force to carry out a regular invasion of Germany Over the heats of Tho Ger Man armies. The Rhine towns and especially the important railway Over that River will be m i Essie Nelv bombed. Essen will come in a a race share of attention and Berlin itself May experience those terrors of the air raid to which the baby killers subjected London and Paris. In any Case the Mil ways out of Belgium and through Luxemburg and Lorraine will come in for the most intense bombardment from the air that has been witnessed in the War. These will toe the arteries through which the German armies standing in their last great Effort to Mai attain inviolate the sacred soil of the will be supplied with the streams of food and munitions. Once these arteries arc opened or Cut the German armies must die or surrender. Even Retreat wll be hence the value the allies of a fully developed air which will toe Aible to cd Ops rate in the task of breaking Down the sep Poris toy which the two into Germany North Ana South of the ardennes will be kept shut. 1o open thira to Tho invading armies of democracy is the task of marshal Foen. In Over running the Western lines 01 the enemy and pressing their forces backwards out of France and Gium the have had a. Glorious career As pioneers and forerunners of the intrepid infantry. But the Mission of the Allied airmen flu Joe to Render untenable tile last. Oerman ditch on foreign soil by. Destroying the communications vital to its a Fenc faster than they can be renewed by the most desperate ener Gies of the defenders., i j Ondon oct. Morning be is diapers reject the German reply of president Wilson pointing out i. no offer of unc ondi no mood for debate canes l pencils s any put on at the go Mann Gav Cru Uon Gove comment vrho As Fol let Foch reply Star Kansas that the made in Foch reply to Tho latest note and be those of the Victor no to to the beaten enemy unconditional surrender deeds. Not words r Cleveland a Nouv ,.iat Germany a Uio Vince As Long As Hohrn a just throne we know Zollers Germany would beyond ume to prepare e Peac for another War. Kaiser playing Possum vein yes Fontin wishes to continue talking. The Nigger in woodpile is the request for an Arm s Tice based on the military status to Dav. Enabling the German armies to and recuperate instead of Enung As would otherwise be it is necessary hat up allies shall endorse president Wilson s programme to 1 prevent Germany driving in. A i Edge Day news is non committal Point out the word of regret regarding atrocities and merely protests against the accusations. Solf s armistice plan is Iron i Manchester guardian the note a Long Way to meet president Wilson s main Points but atrocities have not ceased yet. The most difficult issues of reconstruction can not to transformed in a. attempt to split allies the majority of the members of the House of commons Are hostile of Germany a reply regarding it As an attempt to split the allies. So of s armistice plan is not sufficient. They declare. The constitutional changes referred to. They Point out Are contained in a Bill which has not. Yet been passed by the Reich Stag. A few labor Itee and radicals regard the note As a great Advance from previous German note i. Huns will have big Bill to pay Belgium i London oct press dispatch from renter s renter s has received from an official belgian source the following account of some of the items which figure on Germany s Bill in Belgium. Ail Given in pounds Sterling. The list includes local control by and Sines levied by Germany on Belgium in 1014, War con marshal Foch. This was the out standing feature of developments Here up to noon today following the receipt of the latest reply to president Wilson. The. Next logical step appeared to be an announcement from b och of the terms on con an armistice possible whether the president will request Foch to i make this statement at this time if purely problematical. It is believed in military circles that Foch s Minn him terms will in clude Allied occupation o. Metz Strassburg and Coblenz. Meantime Public pressure from the i entire nation in the form or. Tele Brams and editorial opinion was combined with the strongest demands from Congress expressed by members individually that unconditional sur Render be made the Only basis for further negotiations. Sis Protection from United states Germany fears righteous retribution for its crime against humanity for the seven months 4o May the same for he Yea. To May 191s, the same from june to october of the current year materials taken. Materials and machinery taken by j w. Mason York oct. Is t Vns to use her peace offensive to entice America into protecting Jie German nation against the righteous retribution for its crimes against humanity. By seeking to encourage International sentimental san among americans Germany Hopes to escape with some of incr loot at the same time dividing the democratic nations against one another. While pleading for a peace of Jub Tice. Tho German government Nas taken no action against its military c in vials who have tried to conquer i the world by rape incendiary so Mur Der and robbery. All of the old gang Eta Iii their positions from von Hindenburg to the West thei i hands still dripping with Jis blood Call out correcting the the note is am big mater at several Hundred millions St moreover during the Winter of it Hae not expressed a with a oct. 23. Germany to Mill Ety terms with major Rev a. Madden. , a Cable of a cent Date from London contained the information thai major Rev a. Madder., the beloved and fear less Winnipeg chaplain has been awarded a bar to the military Cross. Major Madden has been attached to a British Columbia battalion in France and Devotion to duty and Harless Ness have won him Well merited Deco rations. He was wounded severely in the right this on March 3 Ami again in August last at the Battle of on the latter occasion lie in taking in the wounded under Nea. Shell fire and received countless strap Nel Bullet , Alcor am to a i Xii Dan correspondent. It is pre suitably for this act of bravery and the award was been made. Very Noi addressed to president we son debated by the War onions before it is dispatched every pos trap into which the America might fall is care fully set and concealed with cunning words. _. Denials futile. A Gentian Chancellor who pleads Tor the salvation of Honor of the people and at the same time Demea the Germany submarine piracy can not be trusted. Having outraged Belgium defiled France bombed the open towns of great Britain and murdered Amer ican women and children on the High teas the germans will henceforth lie to the uttermost believe tug false May save them. Now that their bloody failed they cringe the harmed of their marked victims plead thai their interests basal empty words. They cannot speak honest words having but a single meaning. Cep Tance of conditions for an lice is so phrased As to mean think or nothing. Their Promise of constitutional reforms have no present Prince Maximilian has rot summoned the Reich Stag and the cured a vote of Confidence since he i became Chancellor charged by the Kaiser to initiate a. Peace offensive Maximilian is As much an absolutist in his Power As trere any of Hia predecessors. Yet he declared no German can take office without the support of a majority of the no peace agreement with Germany is Worth anything unit in guaranteed by the military Raight of America and the allies. No armistice safeguard the interest of democracy that in t dictated by marshal Foch. General Pershing Ana the Allied commanders. The Only terms. Germany has forfeited the world s the penalty for that is unconditional surrender. Otherwise democracy will be betrayed at hour of its Triumph. How German claims lie. London oct. Reference to the paragraph in the German note driving that the German Navy in sinking ships never purposely fired on lifeboats with their passengers t 19 pointed out in government circles that Many cases could to quoted Iti to this denial. Two recent cases Are the Llandovery Castle the Cana Dian Hospital ship sunk in the at lactic and the French Steamer by Diana sunk off the North coast of Spain on july j.8. The Llandovery Castle was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast on the night of june 27 while re turning from Halifax with wounded aboard. The vessel carried 258 per sons including la female nurses and Only 24 were saved. The German submarine Effort to Aid the survivors and even tried to sink at least one of the lifeboats. Lydiana Case. After the Lydiana had been torpedoed two whaleboat and a. Ratt were lowered. The submarine ram med both boats cutting them in two. Several fruitless attempts he submarine succeeded in sinking the raft and then disappeared without helping the survivors. Line men or the Crew of 42 were picked up later Bavins Duns to wreckage for More ban a Day. The second Engineer of the Lydiana reported that the Crew of the submarine had laughed at Fura when he accused them of trying to Kluj. All on Board the Steamer. Or the German note referred to the German government further Donies that the Gorman Navy in sink ing shins has Ever purposely destroyed lifeboats with their passengers. The German government proposes with regard to All those charges that the facts be cleared up by Neutra. total loss 213 lives Washington. Oct. Officers and enlisted men of the army lost their lives in Tho sinking of the american Steamer Ticonderoga in to if War zone sept. So. This announce ment today by the War department brought the total loss of life to the Navy having previously reported ten officers and 102 men of the Crew dead and two officers carried of. As prisoners by the enemy that sent the vessel Down. Are your Lihr Chan turns electric i Light High or sold Lyah the Section of the wireless text when you get a Benjamin two Way plug get it at ;